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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2022

Serious Illness and Limitations of Death Certificate-Based Data: Urgent Lessons From the Opioid Epidemic.

Jessica S Merlin, Melissa W Wachterman, William C Becker, Amy S B Bohnert

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Article in American journal of public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jessica S MerlinJessica S. Merlin is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. Melissa W. Wachterman is with the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the Section of General Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA. William C. Becker is with the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, and the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Amy S. B. Bohnert is with the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor.
Melissa W WachtermanJessica S. Merlin is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. Melissa W. Wachterman is with the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the Section of General Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA. William C. Becker is with the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, and the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Amy S. B. Bohnert is with the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor.
William C BeckerJessica S. Merlin is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. Melissa W. Wachterman is with the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the Section of General Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA. William C. Becker is with the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, and the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Amy S. B. Bohnert is with the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor.
Amy S B BohnertJessica S. Merlin is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. Melissa W. Wachterman is with the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the Section of General Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA. William C. Becker is with the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, and the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Amy S. B. Bohnert is with the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor.

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

EpidemicsOpioid-Related DisordersAnalgesics, OpioidDeath CertificatesHumansOpioid EpidemicAnalgesics, Opioid

Identifiers

PMID35143261
PMCPMC8842219

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